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Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939Show full title
Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (‘the EPPO’)
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Article 73U.K.Security of processing of operational personal data
1.The EPPO shall, taking into account the state of the art, costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing as well as risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, in particular as regards the processing of special categories of operational personal data referred to in Article 55.
2.In respect of automated processing, the EPPO shall, following an evaluation of the risks, implement measures designed to:
(a)deny unauthorised persons access to data processing equipment used for processing (equipment access control);
(b)prevent the unauthorised reading, copying, modification or removal of data media (data media control);
(c)prevent the unauthorised input of data and the unauthorised inspection, modification or deletion of stored operational personal data (storage control);
(d)prevent the use of automated processing systems by unauthorised persons using data communication equipment (user control);
(e)ensure that persons authorised to use an automated processing system have access only to the operational personal data covered by their access authorisation (data access control);
(f)ensure that it is possible to verify and establish the bodies to which operational personal data have been or may be transmitted or made available using data communication (communication control);
(g)ensure that it is subsequently possible to verify and establish which operational personal data have been input into automated data processing systems, and when and by whom the data were input (input control);
(h)prevent unauthorised reading, copying, modification or deletion of operational personal data during transfers of operational personal data or during transportation of data media (transport control);
(i)ensure that installed systems may, in the case of interruption, be restored (recovery);
(j)ensure that the functions of the system perform, that the appearance of faults in the functions is reported (reliability) and that stored operational personal data cannot be corrupted by means of a malfunctioning of the system (integrity).
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